Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians) Share this | Hansard source

As I've just said in my answer to the primary question, it is the responsibility of the quality commissioner, as an independent regulator, to take regulatory action and to work with providers to ensure that they bring their compliance back to standard. That's the responsibility of the commission. The Labor Party voted with the government late last year to complete the formation of the quality commission, to bring it under one control, to ensure that we—as has been recommended by a number of reform processes—bring it into one organisation that has regulatory responsibility across the aged-care sector. I expect the providers to meet the standards and the quality commission to fulfil its role, which is to ensure that they do.